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Love, Desire and Disability: The Heart Knows No Handicap
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Love, Desire and Disability: The Heart Knows No Handicap

“Disabled people are treated like children,” says Nidhi Goyal, founder director of the NGO Rising Flame, a disability rights activist and comedian. This identification makes the non-disabled — a term Goyal prefers using — feel entitled to decide for them.
By Curated Content
August 14, 2018
Love, Desire and Disability: The Heart Knows No Handicap
Reflections on accessibility and sexuality
A woman in a wheelchair, smiling, conversing with another woman who is also on a wheelchair. She has long hair pulled to one side, is wearing frameless specks, and is wearing a red and black top.
Reflections on accessibility and sexuality

I thought of myself as a feminist activist much before I formally entered the development sector space. I participated in…
By Shreshtha Das
August 16, 2017
Reflections on accessibility and sexuality
An Interview with Disability and Sexuality Rights Activist Kiran
Kiran sitting on a wheelchair, smiling. He is wearing brown pants and a white shirt, and has his cellphone peeking out of his top shirt pocket.
An Interview with Disability and Sexuality Rights Activist Kiran

He is the founder of a number of support organisations that focus on sexuality and disability issues at the grassroots. Over multiple conversations conducted in Hindi and English, Kiran and Shikha Aleya discussed issues of sexuality, access and disability based on some of Kiran’s life experiences.
By Shikha Aleya
August 3, 2017
An Interview with Disability and Sexuality Rights Activist Kiran
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
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Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!

The Union Budget, 2014 presented by the newly elected government a few weeks ago includes various provisions for disabled persons…
By Rupsa Mallik
August 1, 2014
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
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